Attentive readers will no doubt recognize Waaga Records’ name. The more “experimental” Sacramento-based offshoot of Lesfe Records (Neon Indian) has already signed a couple young Denton acts to its growing roster in DC9 favorites Florene and FUR. It’s an impressive enough start to the point where, in the past, we…
Kessler Theatre booking agent Jeff Liles, whom DC9 readers likely remember for his Echoes and Reverberations columns, has been busy Tweeting today about upcoming shows at the restored Oak Cliff theater. So far, the venue’s ReverbNation site has just three dates confirmed: a release party for Josh Alan Friedman’s autobiographical…
Two giants of country music converge on Cowtown tonight as Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson play the prestigious Bass Hall. (Pardon that bout of excited alliteration.)Approaching his 73rd birthday, Haggard hasn’t shown many signs of slowing down. Plus, he’s just one tough son of a bitch. Case in point: It…
MTV just posted the above interview with Jerry Jones, captured outside a downtown Dallas NBA All-Star party this past weekend. It’s a fun/unintentionally hilarious clip, centered around the fact that on December 13, when the Cowboys played (and lost) to the San Diego Chargers, Eminem was in town, wandering about…
Between Midlake’s having Sarah Jaffe open for its show on a recent string of shows in the southeast and that same band’s taking Matthew Arrogant Sea on the road come March, there’s been a whole lot of Denton-on-Denton touring love of late. And ain’t it sweet to see that city’s…
We’ve expressed our approval of the vocal stylings of Sore Losers before–kinda gushed, actually–and, yeah, we’ve mentioned Brown and Blue’s new mixtape before too. But it all bears repeating–especially after we stumbled across the above video for “The Deadly Intro,” the introduction and first song on the Dallas duo’s Free…
There won’t be an outdoor concert after this year’s Observer-sponsored (what, what?) Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Not a hundred percent why–the promotions people say something about the pigs, oink oink. Instead, this year’s after-party concert will take place at the Granada Theater–mostly on the main stage, but with…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 17, 2010…Rock Band is coming out with a Jimi Hendrix edition. Sweet, more white dudes tryin’ to play like Jimi…She & Him is heading across the pond for their first ever headlining show in England. Here’s a novel idea, how…
Welcome to Round 2 of Vox Pop, DC9’s way to give back to the hip-hop community.First off, we’d like to start by saying thanks for all of the input that we got last week, in our first round of competition. Let’s keep this thing building, though. And that being said,…
…or so this here press release we just received from Idol Records’ Erv Karwelis says. We’d watch and see for ourselves but we generally try to avoid shows like 16 and Pregnant, which seem to imply the impending apocalypse and/or inspire things like teenage pregnancy pacts. If you can handle…
We here at DC9 are proud to announce that we’ll be sponsoring one of the many shows scheduled as part of this year’s NX35 conferette up in Denton from March 11-14. And how: We’ll be hosting the The Boiler Room’s Friday night showcase featuring Los Angeles’ HEALTH and Denton-based DC9…
Over at SXSW’s Web site, festival organizers have started posting the schedule of events for this year’s ordeal. And, though its still a few weeks off and many bands and showcases that we know are set to happen have yet to appear, it’s still a fun browse.Also, for what it’s…
On Friday night our nightlife photographers stopped at Zubar to witness Chicken George & Tyrone. Later they headed for Lizard Lounge to watch AC Slater. The cold weather had not deterred attendees from arriving in their underwear. Check out the rest of the photos here…
The Fader already posted the above video version of the woozy synth track “Butterscotch” by Faux Fox frontman George Quartz, but it’s worth sharing nonetheless. Besides, Fader writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd took Quartz at his blog’s word that he’s from Seychelles; someone has to point out that he sure has…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 16, 2010…Aerosmith is slated to headline the Download Festival in England this summer… if the band has a singer by then.Franz Ferdinand is working on its fourth album.Peter Gabriel may reunite with Genesis for their Rock and Roll Hall Of…
For the third year, Fallout Lounge hosted the Valentine’s Day weekend party “Fall In Love at Fallout Lounge,” this time featuring DJs Killtron (of Hot Flash) and Five Easy Pieces (from Denton). Our photographer Mattie Stafford returned from the night with plenty more shots from the party, which you’ll find…
Last weekend’s all-star party lineup was obviously a see-and-be-seen kind of deal. But now that it’s all over, you get to sit at your computer and just look at everyone else.It’s all thanks to our team of photographers who waited around along the freezing red carpets all night for the…
Jesse already mentioned it in his review of Erykah Badu’s Saturday night performance at the Palladium, but what the heck–seeing is believing, you know. So, on that note, check out the above video for Badu’s new Web-only track off of New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh. The clip…
Play-N-Skillz and Def Jam’s All-Star Weekend Finale PartyPM LoungeFebruary 14, 2009For Grammy-winning hip-hop producers Play-N-Skillz, Sunday night–the last night of a jam-packed, celebrity- and part-filled weekend–saw the brothers Salinas hosting not one, but two parties. Earlier in the evening, the brothers welcomed a number of Dallas Cowboys and Mavericks to…
The 8th Annual Kenny Smith All-Star BashDeux LoungeFebruary 12, 2009Considering the influx of fliers and Facebook spamming that has gone on over the past few weeks, Kenny “The Jet” Smith’s party was relatively word-of-mouth. But that didn’t stop the powers that be at Deux from needing a pop-up tent to…
This afternoon comes word that a handful of other acts have been added to the already stout NX35 lineup. Fat Possum Records’ The Walkmen is the big name, of course. But others include DFW’s own Trebuchet, Saboteur and Jack with One Eye, Austin’s Pure Ecstasy and French duo Electric Electric.In…
The English Beat, Fishbone, Outlaw NationThe Granada TheaterFebruary 13, 2010Better than: Sitting at home watching the Winter Olympics with my wife and kids. An almost-packed house at the Granada Theater enjoyed nearly four hours of ska-related rhythms this past Saturday night as three fine acts made optimism the order of…
